Is there anyway of making the blue block thinner? I can manually remove the > from the bar and then manually reduce the width of the block. Is there no way to change the template so it automatically looks like this?

It looks alright if it's very narrow - but otherwise it looks like a nasty piece of formatting, and not particularly suited to business use.

I personally find that blue line quite cool - it's unique to The Bat! and IMO, should not be removed. However, it would be best to have an option to customize it so that those who don't like it so much can remove / reduce it's thickness.